"Confirm E-Mail" field in user_account datatype

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Philip K.	Thursday 09 December 2010 1:05:23 am Hello. I have the problem that some users in my site are making mistakes in typing their e-mail address. for example a user types "somename@m-company.com" instead of "somename@my-company.com". So it would be nice to have a field named "Confirm E-Mail" where the user types his e-mail address again and eZ compares these two addresses... Has anyone ever seen a datatype like that or created a custom datatype that can handle my request?? Thanks for your help. Philip Linux is like a wigwam; no windows, now gates, and apache inside!
Nicolas Pastorino	Thursday 09 December 2010 3:25:27 am Hi Philip, Good one. As a workaround measure, you can override the ezuser datatype's edit template, enforcing this double-check on the email address with javascript. For a more accessible version of this, the datatype itself should be altered, adding server-side checks and returning warnings when not ok. This will, for now given that datatypes are not overridable through a kernel override yet, need to be built through a new datatype i think. Cheers ! -- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye
Philip K.	Thursday 09 December 2010 7:33:43 am Hi Nicolas, thanks for your reply. In a first step I followed your suggestion and realized this functionality with an override of the datatype/edit/ezuser.tpl in combination with javascript. But this is only a "quick and dirty" solution and I think for the future I will create a custom datatype that meets my requirements. Philip Linux is like a wigwam; no windows, now gates, and apache inside!

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Philip K.

Thursday 09 December 2010 1:05:23 am

Hello.

I have the problem that some users in my site are making mistakes in typing their e-mail address. for example a user types "somename@m-company.com" instead of "somename@my-company.com".

So it would be nice to have a field named "Confirm E-Mail" where the user types his e-mail address again and eZ compares these two addresses...

Has anyone ever seen a datatype like that or created a custom datatype that can handle my request??

Thanks for your help.

Philip

Linux is like a wigwam; no windows, now gates, and apache inside!

Nicolas Pastorino

Thursday 09 December 2010 3:25:27 am

Hi Philip,

Good one. As a workaround measure, you can override the ezuser datatype's edit template, enforcing this double-check on the email address with javascript. For a more accessible version of this, the datatype itself should be altered, adding server-side checks and returning warnings when not ok. This will, for now given that datatypes are not overridable through a kernel override yet, need to be built through a new datatype i think.

Cheers !

--
Nicolas Pastorino
Director Community - eZ
Member of the Community Project Board

eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity

t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye
G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye

Philip K.

Thursday 09 December 2010 7:33:43 am

Hi Nicolas,

thanks for your reply.

In a first step I followed your suggestion and realized this functionality with an override of the datatype/edit/ezuser.tpl in combination with javascript.

But this is only a "quick and dirty" solution and I think for the future I will create a custom datatype that meets my requirements.

Philip

Linux is like a wigwam; no windows, now gates, and apache inside!